Clinical Informaticist

Vail Health is the world’s most advanced mountain healthcare system, consisting of a state-of-the-art hospital providing exceptional care. The Clinical Informaticist will support clinical excellence and quality by optimizing clinical applications and workflows, ensuring effective technology use to enhance patient care.

Responsibilities

• Consults on the analysis of requested EMR enhancements impacting single or multiple departments across the enterprise
• Facilitates enhancement requests and supports translation through established governance and prioritization processes
• Conducts multidisciplinary feasibility assessments to identify opportunities for system and workflow improvement, including analysis of current state practices, technical options, and downstream workflow impact
• Serves as a liaison to clinically focused committees, including multidisciplinary, nursing, and provider forums
• Designs and supports the implementation of education and clinical services programs, including end-user training and onboarding for nursing and provider staff
• Engages clinical and operational stakeholders to support adoption of systems and workflows; serves as a subject matter expert on solution roadmaps and optimization opportunities
• Leverages clinical and operational data to inform improvements in workflow efficiency, patient safety, care delivery, financial outcomes, and system usability
• Translates the impact of public policy, regulatory, or accreditation requirements into informatics practice and system configuration
• Participates in on-call rotation to provide user support in alignment with the established support framework

Skills

• Minimum of one (1) year of clinical experience required
• Bachelor's degree required
• One of the following is required: Respiratory Therapist (RT), Physical Therapist (PT), Occupational Therapist (OT), Registered Nurse (RN) preferred
• Three (3) years of IT or clinical experience supporting clinical workflows across multiple departments or service lines preferred
• Demonstrated proficiency with EMR technologies, including Epic, HIE, HL7, and FHIR, preferred
• Experience with systems development life cycle (SDLC), project or change management, end-user training, and clinical workflow analysis in a healthcare environment, preferred
• Familiarity with chart review, clinical workflows, data analytics, and current or emerging regulatory requirements, preferred
• Knowledge of Lean or other process improvement methodologies preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Board Certification in Informatics preferred
• Nursing, computer science, or health-related field preferred

Benefits

• Competitive wages
• Parental leave (4 weeks paid)
• Housing programs
• Childcare reimbursement
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Tuition Assistance
• Existing Student Loan Repayment
• Specialty Certification Reimbursement
• Annual Supplemental Educational Funds
• Up to five weeks in your first year of employment and continues to grow each year.
• 403(b) Retirement plan with immediate matching
• Life insurance
• Short and long-term disability
• Up to $1,000 annual wellbeing reimbursement
• Recreation discounts
• Pet insurance

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